Alexandra Tsvetkova with an Incentive Speech at a High Level Expert Conference Dedicated to the Protection of Human Rights

23.05.2018

Alexandra Tsvetkova, Director of LIBRe Foundation, was invited to take part in a high-level expert conference for the 25th anniversary of the World Conference on Human Rights (1993). Mrs. Tsvetkova was also among the chosen ones to encourage the discussion with an
incentive speech on 'Challenges to Secure Digital Rights and Initiatives
to Raise Privacy Awareness'.

The World Conference on Human Rights took place between 14 and 25 June 1993 and gathered more than 10,000 representatives of governments, the United Nations and the international civil society. The Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action (VDPA) adopted at the World Conference together are considered a landmark document for the promotion and protection of human rights, creating inter alia the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and his office (OHCHR).

On this occasion, the Austrian Federal Ministry for Europe,
Integration and Foreign Affairs together with the Office of the UN High
Commissioner for Human Rights, the City of Vienna, and the Ludwig
Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights organized a high-level expert
conference on 22 and 23 May 2018 in Vienna. Federal Minister Dr. Karin
Kneissl together with the High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad
Al Hussein opened the event.

The conference gathered independent human rights
experts from civil society, academia and the private sector, youth,
human rights defenders, representatives of the UN,
regional/sub-regional/national/local human rights institutions as well
as government representatives. Leading experts from all world regions were invited
to discuss global trends such as digitalisation, demographic changes,
urbanisation and climate change and their impact on human rights. The
discussions at expert level were conducted in two working groups
focusing on the following topics:

Human Rights and Security

Promotion of Equality in our Societies

The
working groups developed practice-oriented recommendations to States
and other relevant stakeholders aimed at further improving the
protection of human rights.